Screwball

I don't know if this dip**** knows his role, or he doesn't know he is the Mark - using poker vernacular. When this whole ****house blows up, which it is about to do, someone gets the blame. It will be him. Someone has to take the blame, why not him? And hey look, we have Al Czervik from Caddyshack. So easy. You can't make this **** up. As the old Jerry Reed song said years ago...something about the gold mine and the shaft. I can't wait until the part of the movie when they bail out the banks, again.

As you are driving south going through Findlay, watch on the left for about...5 huge windmills, not sure how many. There is a Whirlpool plant just off 75, I don't remember how much of it you can see, if any, but you can see the windmills. Whirlpool and a company called Ball Corporation financed them to feed their plants (only paid part of the bill). They go back to the mid or early teens. Whirlpool has a huge dishwasher plant there. I worked there when they were putting up the windmills. Once the large support was in place, you could see guys standing in the cavity where the spinning shaft will eventually be. Fun to watch it all go on, but...given hundreds of us had to get in and out from all over, it was a real pain at times. When they shipped in the blades traffic was a giant cluster. I wonder, if they were not so close to 75 if it would have ever had happened? Those blades are pretty long. They could never truck them to Cornhole. Funny town Findlay. They are on the I75 corridor, which is a good thing. That helped them grow. They also have Marathon Oil's corporate office, Cooper Tire & Rubber (who I think might have been bought out by Goodyear) as a couple big names. The downtown is small, but kind of neat. Quite a few food places to chose from. But they have trouble with floods. The Blanchard river has flooded ever since Moby **** was a minnow, and they never did jack squat. It ended up running places away from downtown because they kept getting flooded. It's a very wealthy town. There is a...I don't know what to call it...myth maybe. They said that Dave Thomas of Wendy's fame square hamburger was stolen from a Findlay restaurant named Wilson's. I don't know if that is true, but I ate there, and they are square. It was a long time ago, but I don't remember when. First famous person I think of is Ben Roethlisberger.

Baseball and girlfriends are not a good match. Maybe for a while, but... At least way back when. They got a huge break today. Don't beat yourself. Back to the basics - as always.

I know from reading this board(s) for many years, you said you played baseball at a higher level than most. I have to disagree here. No way, no how does that ball get by him. Period. Even if you don't get the out. At this level, they should know how the spin works. You can't let what happen, happen. Not trying to start a fight, just the old baseball guy in me coming out. That said, I feel for all those who couldn't watch. Major bummer. We got a gift when the guy became a sitting duck. FINALLY, a little something goes our way. I aged about 10 years in about an hour today, but I guess that's what keeps us coming back. When the game was over I headed to my watering hole, full of Indian fans. Giggle. Sat with one. First thing he says; you lucky *******. Yes, I suppose that's true. Well, maybe the guy shouldn't have ran half way to the plate so he is a sitting duck. NO, he was only a little bit off the bag says the guy. It would be really special to see this done tomorrow. The bucket list gets another checkmark.

I was only 10. :-) The North coast of Ohio along Lake Erie is really pretty neat. Put-in-Bay, Kelly's, North shore stuff, Cedar Point, etc. Then there is the gazillion dollar drive. From mid Ohio along the lake to downtown Cleveland to a ball game. The money along that stretch of highway is really impressive.

Good for you. You know they appreciate that stuff. They know there are only so many more days left, and each one precious. Any little thing like that is a blessing. Me and a couple of buddies took a trip to the Amish country in SE Ohio one time. Old people do that. We were coming out of a restaurant and I was holding the door open for a guy who looked to be in his 80s. The other two I was with were trying to figure out where we parked. I looked at this guy and said; We already lost the car and we ain't even started drinking yet. He got the biggest kick out of that. Probably made his day. It is really no fun getting old. Rest homes really really suck.

There are about 8 of us, not all show up everyday, but enough. We love to hear the "work day" horror stories of those who are not as fortunate. It really means a lot to us old guys (from 65 to almost 80) to just get out and talk to people every day. The "youngin's" think we are a hoot. They are too. Funny, the bar owner is a long time rabid Tiger fan. I'm guessing he will watch the games at home this week. They have about 10 TVs at his bar. The Tuesday night the Indians scored 3 runs without hitting a ball out of the infield and Skubal hit that guy, some of the Indian fans said he did it on purpose and it got a bit ugly I guess. Glad I wasn't there. Good place to get your ass kicked. Speaking of ass kickings...Hello Tigers!!!! The stat guys might appreciate this, but I'm on the "reversion to the mean" train.

What do we win?

I peed in it. 🙂

I live in the middle of Indian country about 2 hrs from Cleveland's stadium. 3:30 is my usual daily trip to see the other retired guys and have an adult beverage. Not tomorrow - no way, no how. Game will be on, place will be full - all Indian fans who are insufferable. Skubal has had extra days off. I expect him to struggle early. Arm is too live. Fastball will be good, but the other stuff won't do what he wants it to do. Especially that kick ass change. The pitch which sets up the others. Don't walk people. Hope he can settle down and get in a groove after a few innings. What to do with Ramirez? The Tigers have to put the ball in play. Hit the damn ball.

Be glad you don't live in the middle of Indian country. Their fans are insufferable.

Plunk him and save three pitches (I know the rule, I'd plunk him anyway.) 😉

During a computer upgrade I was testing my apps. I happened to find this. 1 year chart. S&P from April 7th (low) to last Friday. From 4835.04 to 6699.52 (this is intraday so we didn't get there). That's a quick %38.5 rip in 5 1/2 months. Bubbles are amazing.

This is correct and it shouldn't even be a question. They play on a field, with a ball, bats, gloves. You still must pitch, catch, and throw the ball. Doesn't matter where it is. And has been said on this very site a gazillion times over the years; in a short series/playoffs anything can happen. For the wanting the bye crowd. Rather not. No live pitching for a few days might **** you up. On the other hand, the Tigers need the practice. 🙂

Speaking of the barchart tweets

That's nuts.

Observation from a distance. Last night they struck out 19 times, which means only 8 guys hit the ball into an out. They had 5 hits, so there is that. They swing at too many bad pitches, and don't swing and hit the ones they should. That's not a very good hitting philosophy no matter when it is in the season. Wee Willie would say, hold my beer.

Unrelated, but I like to watch the market through the charts and my brokers trading software. It gives you much better news too. Unfortunately, my main computer developed an issue a week ago, so it is in getting a tuneup so I haven't been able to do that. My point, while getting fixed, we added an extra ssd drive and more memory. Already has a kick ass NVDA card, so this should be a faster rocket when done. The cost of ssd drives and memory is so cheap it's crazy. I think I spent 2500 bucks back in...I don't know...early 90s for a kick ass rocket ship with a 500 mb hard drive, 8 mb of memory, and a couple of floppy drives. I just spent less than a hundred for gigs. How far we have come. And to think, today, I carry around a memory stick that would hold thousands of that computer. Then there is our phone... I'm old. I remember the days before computers. Now we need huge data centers, apparently. Makes you wonder where it all goes next?

I'm old and have watched a lot of baseball games in my life, but this one was about a crazy of a game as I have ever watched. WTF? In all the chaos I missed the 19 strikeout thing. Really? So only 8 people hit the ball for an out. Outstanding.

I'm about 50 miles SE of Toledo and I can't say I've ever heard of the company nor noticed any solar farms around here. I go from here to Toledo once every few months. Same with Columbus. I'm talking farms. On the other hand, the state college I taught at build a solar farm on campus over the last year. I don't know if had anything to do with that company or not. Over around Findlay, if you drive down I75 you can see some large windmills. Those have been there for around 7 years (?) and were funded by Whirlpool and Ball Corporations, so not affiliated with that company either, but alt energy just the same. There is a small solar farm on the east side of town but I don't know anything about them. I have heard people talk about large solar farms in the area, but I don't remember where. Right now our farmers are probably worried about their harvest this year. We are in the middle of a huge drought. Soy beans are like bee bees.

I don't think so. It goes back to the "last mile" stuff. Who owns the infrastructure. In our case, the old coax lines used the power poles, but that doesn't happen all the time around here anymore (and a lot of other places). As the fiber people started to compete against the old coax people, they ran most of the cable underground. Not only long runs down streets, but from the street to the house. The digging/boring machines are pretty neat. One guy I know who worked in the industry told me they couldn't get fiber to me (few years ago) is because of rivers, creeks, and railroads. Which means no power poles are used to cross them. Don't know, but guessing, regulations to keep the big players in control. Or cost. Maybe more accurate; want to run your cable - bend over. As this technology progresses, it will change once again. They know that, the next big thing is coming. I remember the days when there was a wire coming into your house, to a phone with a wire hooked to a handset so you could talk on a phone. Once the technology gets good enough, we won't need the wires or fiber for our internet either. I know, you can do that now, but it's not common. But, even if you go WW (trademark; worldwide wireless) someone and something are connecting everyone, so it goes back to the first mile. Who designed it - who built it - and who paid for it. After that, everyone else are poachers.

To the first paragraph; so cool, and good on all them. We don't have the ability to do that. Our local TV stations are at least 50 miles away. You can get some over the air, but not all. Part of the problem with getting internet to everyone is it changes all the time. I'm on my third supplier in the last 25 years. I just went fiber optic this spring. I waited over a year, and I'm in town. It replaced the old coax type stuff. It can only grow so fast, and then there is the cost. Are you going to run 5 miles of line or cable to supply 10 people? Probably not. All about numbers. The bad part of teaching is the kids they send us. It all starts at home.

I think it was March 2020, due to the COVID issue at the time, the school I taught at tried to go remote. High school age kids taking life courses, for a lack of a better word. We are in rural Ohio. Kids from 14 surrounding schools were bussed in daily. We couldn't go remote. Over half didn't have good enough internet, or none at all. Another area of needs that has failed miserably. And FWIW, after spending the last 6 years teaching for a state college, our educational system is another epic cluster ****.